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http://moolenaar.net/habits.html
Written by Vim's own creator Bram Moolenaar, this classic 2000 essay lays out seven practical habits for editing text efficiently using the Vim editor. It covers navigation shortcuts, macros, plugins, and general principles that apply beyond Vim to any serious text editing workflow.
https://zptr.cc/
Yui's personal homepage features a cozy collection of friend site links, webrings, and live stats including coding hours tracked and local weather. The site showcases a handcrafted old-web aesthetic with a blog, gallery, and projects section, and points visitors toward a new home at yui.dev.
http://rw.rs/
rw.rs is a tilde-style shared Unix server hosting dozens of personal user directories, each linked from this index page. Part of the tildeverse community, it offers a glimpse into the collaborative, old-web culture of public-access shell servers where users carve out their own corners of the web.
https://cozynet.org/
CozyNet Blog is a personal tech blog covering Linux distributions, desktop environments like Trinity and GNOME, networking tools like ProtonVPN, and general life updates. The author digs into practical topics such as running Ubuntu, configuring yt-dlp, and thoughts on web development philosophy, making it a cozy corner of the internet for Linux enthusiasts.
http://www.aristobit.com/
Jeffrey S. Miller's personal and project hosting space, offering a Web 1.0 style hub that links to a blog, SVG experiments, a Planning Poker tool, and a Tracery text-generation project. The mix of small web tools and creative coding projects makes it a curious snapshot of a developer's hobbyist work.
https://www.marginalia.nu/
Viktor Lofgren is a Swedish software engineer who built Marginalia, an independent search engine and suite of web tools focused on discovering obscure and interesting corners of the old web. The site includes a weblog, an encyclopedia, a similar-website finder, release notes, and thoughtful essays on search engines, programming, and web culture.
https://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/postfix_tutorial.html
Mike Chirico's detailed step-by-step tutorial walks home Linux users through configuring Postfix and Fetchmail to send and receive Gmail with SASL authentication and TLS encryption. The guide covers mail server setup, fetchmail with STARTTLS, inter-home-network mail forwarding, and automated email backups, making it a thorough reference for self-hosted Linux mail on a home network.
https://ilovehewlettpackard.com/
A lovingly minimal tribute to Hewlett Packard, featuring imagery dedicated to the iconic computing and electronics brand. The site is a charming slice of old-web nostalgia for HP enthusiasts who remember the company fondly.
https://gingershaped.computer/
Ginger's personal site showcases her software projects, tools, and curiosities with a minimalist index-style layout. A developer who writes software for fun and profit, she participates in webrings like 'no ai' and 'c10y', hinting at a community-minded indie web presence.
https://alt-webring.com/?siteid=usvfincher
A lovingly reconstructed archive of the former alt-webring service, which ran from 2003 to 2015, rebuilt using Wayback Machine data to restore links to hundreds of old independent websites. With 434 former rings, over 4,000 former sites, and roughly 3,456 still-clickable links, it offers a genuine portal back to the handcrafted, passion-driven web of the early 2000s.